Re: Observer's handbook comments

Quadibloc wrote:
Rich wrote:
Are you talking about the RASC handbook?

My guess is that he is, as he is referring to an "Observer's Handbook"
not published by an American federation of astronomy clubs that his
club belongs to - in *that* case, it would be a benefit of membership,
and the problem would not arise.

I'm surprised, actually, that in this one tiny area the Americans have
taken pity on our efforts and haven't gone out and done better with
ten times the manpower. (Actually, more than ten: with places like
Arizona in your country, it clearly has a climate more suited to
amateur astronomy than Canada.) I can only assume that our Observer's
Handbook was good enough that there was no need to duplicate the
effort.

Although in Britain, there's Patrick Moore's annual effort - given
that Britain is a far northern country with a damp climate, that there
is one man there of whom one can almost say that he *is* amateur
astronomy in Britain is perhaps not surprising - it is natural to feel
under such circumstances that amateur astronomy needs a little push.

John Savard





The AL (Astronomical League) is taking pre orders,
the RASC OH ships in December. The price is $21.00

I already ordered mine :)



Don't know what all the fuss is about, as long as one
gets it. It's worth the $31.00 list price even !

This must be a New York Yankee type of thing...


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